[Bulk] Re: [cw-discuss] samba shares > cxoffice-linux

[Joe Baker]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> This seems to work except for what appears to be an extreme performance hit on 
> teh database I am using (foxbase). It is much slower than the vm session. I 
> will have to get it setup on a desktop machine now instead of just the laptop 
> so I have a 100base T to see it it is the 802.11G wireless or just the system 
> in general. I know er only have one lan cable running between 2 routers, and 
> probably need to upgrade that but I was hoping for a performance increase 
> over the vmware session not the other way around. The software itself seems 
> to be faster in cxoffice, but the network performance is a real hit. 
> I will also have to try on teh win2003 server and see if it is any different 
> over my freebsd samba server.
> on teh freesmb box it may help to use nfs and mount that way over samba?
>
> Mike
>   

There is an option in filesharing called opportunistic locking.  I thing
for a database file you need to turn opportunistic locking off. 
"OpLocks" they are called.   I remember this was an issue for database
applications.  There is a way to set oplock settings for specific file
extensions.

-Joe Baker